Nutrition
Funded by Dole, a site that encourages kids to be healthy with nutrition based games and activities, music, recipes, comics, and videos.
This site is specifically designed for parents and caregivers to provide information to help you eat better, be more physically active and be a role model for your kids. This site contains information and resources to: help you get started, help you make smart choices, prepare quick, easy, and healthy meals that taste good and provide you with tips on how to increase physical activity in your life.
The Food and Nutrition Information Center – a leader in food and human nutrition information dissemination since 1971 – provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.
From healthy, quick snack ideas to fun cooking activities to do in out-of-school-time programs, Healthy Kids Out of School’s website, Healthy Kids Hub, is filled with free educational materials, discounted products, and other special offers to help out-of-school-time programs promote healthy eating habits.
Kidica offers resources and guidance to provide health and education for our youth. There will be times when kids will refuse to eat anything green! Here a few tips and tricks into turning them in to green food lovers without even knowing it.
Kids can learn about healthy eating on this fun website with information about food groups, labels, and safety.
This site is part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative to combat childhood obesity. It provides information on nutrition and health in the everyday as well as physical activities and the promotion of healthier food options in schools.
General informational resources on childhood nutrition and physical activity.
Fun food games for kids, as well as information regarding childhood nutrition for parents.
Nutrition.gov provides easy access to the best food and nutrition information from across the federal government. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers.
The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN) is a committee of 25 volunteer citizens who advise the President through the Secretary of Health and America. Through its programs and partnerships with the public, private and non-profit sectors, PCFSN serves as a catalyst to promote healthy lifestyles through fitness, sports and nutrition programs and initiatives that engage Americans across the lifespan.
PublicHealth offers many resources and publications pertaining to nutrition best practices for a healthy life.